Jean Seo


2024

pdf bib
Korean Bio-Medical Corpus (KBMC) for Medical Named Entity Recognition
Sungjoo Byun | Jiseung Hong | Sumin Park | Dongjun Jang | Jean Seo | Minseok Kim | Chaeyoung Oh | Hyopil Shin
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a pivotal role in medical Natural Language Processing (NLP). Yet, there has not been an open-source medical NER dataset specifically for the Korean language. To address this, we utilized ChatGPT to assist in constructing the KBMC (Korean Bio-Medical Corpus), which we are now presenting to the public. With the KBMC dataset, we noticed an impressive 20% increase in medical NER performance compared to models trained on general Korean NER datasets. This research underscores the significant benefits and importance of using specialized tools and datasets, like ChatGPT, to enhance language processing in specialized fields such as healthcare.

pdf bib
ManNER & ManPOS: Pioneering NLP for Endangered Manchu Language
Sangah Lee | Sungjoo Byun | Jean Seo | Minha Kang
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

We present pioneering research in the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the endangered Manchu language. Recognizing the critical importance of linguistic preservation, we experiment with three language models – BiLSTM-CRF, BERT, and mBERT – for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging tasks. Given the limited digitized Manchu text available, we augment the data using GloVe embeddings for the pre-training of BERT-based models. Remarkably, all models demonstrated outstanding performance, achieving over 90% F1 score in both NER and POS tagging tasks. Our research not only marks the first application of NLP on Manchu and the inaugural use of BERT-based models for the language but also stands as the first endeavor to employ Manchu for NER and POS tagging. To foster further exploration and applications in the field, we make our fine-tuning dataset and models available to the public. Through this research, we aim to underscore the significance of NLP in the protection and revitalization of low-resource languages.

2023

pdf bib
Mergen: The First Manchu-Korean Machine Translation Model Trained on Augmented Data
Jean Seo | Sungjoo Byun | Minha Kang | Sangah Lee
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL)